Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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had just considered going to help Mikayla when he heard Kylie weakly

on her neck from Mikayla’s grip, Jerome instruct ed the woman who

fetched the first ald kill.

down and

her arm. “Get up.”

and as he pulled at her arm, it

felt a bit uneasy.

come up here to apologize? What’s with this

eyes began to focus, and her body gradually regained

a sense of

with Kylie after the divorce?” Mikayla

voice was hoarse, and her

tightened further as

someone’s life over this?”

the first

you trying

round–faced woman approached at that moment, carrying the first aid

up, but she

back to her feet on her own, adjusted her clothes, and walked away without

wanted to chase after Mikayla to find out what had happened, but at

out a stifled

that Mikayla was the one responsible for the disturbance,

complete stop. “Shall

her pale face, Kylie shook her head.

fine? Another inch deeper, and it

was that person just now?

faint smile. “She might have misunderstood

still defending her. I think we

furrowed brows, Kylie said to the round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha, please go back for now. If there’s

but she could tell

rest well. If you need someone to look after you tonight, call

asked Kylie, “What just happened? Why did Mikayla